Important Events From This day in History June 1

 

 

1923 Great Britain World War I Loans To France

1923 : Both Great Britain and the United States are demanding back the loans made to France borrowed during the First World War but the french answer is both Britain and America are much richer nations and as the war was a world war they should not have to pay the money back, negotiations are continuing at diplomatic levels.

1933 USA Roger Williams

1933 : The aviator, Roger Williams, announces his plans to fly a round-trip flight across the Atlantic ocean. His flight plans start from New York and include stops in Rome, Greece, and Ireland. He plans to end in Chicago. It was set to start his flight on July 24th in a Bellanca plane.

1938 Superman Appears For The First Time

1938 : Superman created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster made his first appearance in D.C. Comics’ Action Comics Series issue #1 which sold for 10 cents.

1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

1967 : One of the most iconic LP's from the 1960s Music is released by The Beatles. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band sold over 8 million copies worldwide.

1968 USA Helen Keller

1968 : The famous blind and deaf author Helen Keller who become a world-famous speaker, Political Activist and author, Helen Keller, dies.

1935 England Compulsory Driving Test

1935 : Compulsory Driving Test is introduced for all drivers in England who started driving on or after April 1st 1934, A voluntary test was introduced by the Road Traffic Act in 1934 and the first person in Britain to take the test and pass his driving test is Mr R.E.L.BEERE. The test took place on the 16th March 1935. The son of Mr R.E.L.BEERE. still has the certificate 00001 signed in behalf of the (then) Minister of Transport. All drivers buying a temporary driving license must now put ‘L’ plates on the car and take a driving test to get their full license.

1942 Poland Extermination Camps

1942 : A Warsaw underground newspaper, the Liberty Brigade, is the first public newspaper to tell the world about the Nazi extermination camps in Poland where tens of thousands of Jews were murdered in Chelmno.

1944 France World War II

1944 : The British Broadcasting Corp. aired the coded message from the first line of a poem by Paul Verlaine to underground resistance fighters in France to inform the French resistance that the D-Day invasion was imminent.

1946 Great Britain First TV Licence Introduced

1946 : The British Broadcasting Corporation/BBC introduces the first TV Licence costing £2 for the British Public. This was in addition to a Radio Licence which cost about 10 shillings (50p). Current TV licence fee is £147.00.

1947 U.S.A. Tornado Arkansas

1947 : A tornado kills an estimated 30 people and leaves over 500 people homeless in Arkansas. Many rural communities were hit by the tornado and destroyed. The storm's path was an estimated 20 miles long, and could have been up to 10 miles wide.

Today in Labor History June 1st, 2026

 

W. E. DuBois

Based in Illinois, the Ladies Federal Labor Union Number 2703 was granted a charter from the American Federation of Labor. Women from a wide range of occupations were among the members, who were ultimately successful in coalescing women’s groups interested in suffrage, temperance, health, housing, and child labor reform to win state legislation in these areas. – 1888

Union Carpenters won a 25-cents-per-day raise, bringing wages for a nine-hour day to $2.50. – 1898

Congress passed the Erdman Act, providing for voluntary mediation or arbitration of railroad disputes. It prohibited contracts that discriminated against union labor or released employers from legal liability for on-the-job injuries. – 1898

3,500 immigrant miners began the Clifton-Morenci, Arizona copper strike. – 1903

W. E. B. DuBois founded the NAACP. – 1909

US troops arrived in Colorado to reclaim coal mines from striking miners after the Colorado National Guard massacred 19 in the miners’ camp. Two women and eleven children were among those killed. – 1914

12,500 longshoremen struck the Pacific coast, from San Diego to Bellingham. Their demands included a closed shop and a wage increase to 55 cents an hour for handling general cargo. – 1916

Farm workers at La Casita Farms in Starr County, Texas went on strike over wages and union recognition. The melon strike became the first major civil rights event in the state during the late 1960s. Brutality by Texas Rangers and local law enforcement broke the strike after a year. – 1966

Two Filipino longshore labor organizers, Domingo and Viernes, were assassinated in Seattle, Washington on orders of US-backed dictator Ferdinand Marcos. – 1981

Meatpackers at the Dakota Premium Foods plant in St. Paul, Minnesota carried out a successful seven-hour sit-down strike to protest a speedup on the production line that was causing increased injuries on the job.  The workers went on to join the UFCW Local 789. – 2000

General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The filing made the automaker the largest U.S. Industrial company to enter bankruptcy protection. It went on to recover thanks to massive help from the UAW and the federal government – 2009